Has an AFL game ever ended 49-41?
It has. 49-41 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Sydney beat St Kilda on May 4, 1901; the latest was Footscray beat Essendon on September 5, 1953.
That makes 49-41 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 50-41 has happened 1 times and 49-42 has happened 2 times. At one point the score disappeared for 35 years, between 1918 and 1953.